Ilex mucronata(L.) M.Powell, Savol. & S.Andrews

catberry

WFO wfo-0001284515 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ilex mucronata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203958061
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203978190
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. c Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 206014453
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. d Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203190557
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205764480
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. f Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205772868
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. g Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202019173
Ilex mucronata, photographed by Sean Grasing
fig. h Sean Grasing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201847475

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Ilex mucronata is native: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin ConnecticutIllinoisIndianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNewfoundlandNova ScotiaOhioOntarioPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecVermontWest VirginiaWisconsin Rhode I.
Native distribution of Ilex mucronata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Connecticut CNT NORTHERN AMERICA
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
Nova Scotia NSC
Ohio OHI
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Vermont VER
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 402 in flower of 3,717 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ilex mucronata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 402 of 3,717 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ageria mucronata Raf.
  • Ilex delicatula Barton
  • Ilicioides canadensis Kuntze
  • Ilicioides mucronata (L.) Britton
  • Nemopanthes mucronata (L.) Trel.
  • Nemopanthus canadensis (Michx.) DC.
  • Nemopanthus fascicularis Raf.
  • Nemopanthus lucida K.Koch
  • Nemopanthus mucronatus (L.) Trel.
  • Nemopanthus mucronatus f. chrysocarpus (Farw.) Fernald
  • Nemopanthus mucronatus f. mucronatus
  • Nemopanthus mucronatus var. chrysocarpus Farw.
  • Prinos canadensis Lodd. ex Steud.
  • Prinos integrifolius Elliott
  • Prinos longipes Raf.
  • Vaccinium mucronatum L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.